SEVENUM (ANP) - Het Limburgse provinciebestuur wil een lening van 20 miljoen euro verstrekken aan attractiepark Toverland in Sevenum. Het pretpark in Noord-Limburg wil de komende jaren uitbreiden, onder meer met een resort en nieuwe attracties. Toverland wil in totaal circa 98 miljoen euro besteden, waarvan 78 miljoen al geregeld is. Het restant krijgt het attractiepark niet via de markt gefinancierd, stelt Limburg.

Toverland wil met de lening van de provincie een nieuw kantoor en een werkplaats voor onderhoud bouwen. Het lukt het park niet dat via partijen als banken te financieren, omdat die faciliteiten op papier niet bijdragen aan het verdienvermogen.

Volgens Limburg kan de uitbreiding van Toverland bijdragen aan de regionale economie en werkgelegenheid. Het idee is dat het park door de uitbreiding het hele jaar meer bezoekers uit binnen- en buitenland kan trekken die langer kunnen blijven en meer besteden.

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It’s not virtue signaling. It’s vitriol signaling about their own perceived persecution

Can someone explain to me why Megyn Kelly is so angry? In an interview with Piers Morgan, the political commentator began ranting so hard about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show that I was starting to worry about her health.

“I’m sorry Piers. To get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America!” she roared. “We don’t need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performing performer, and we don’t need an ICE- or America-hater featured as our primetime entertainment.”

Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist

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The pedal is pressed hard to the metal for this very stylish high-stakes armed robbery thriller starring Chris Hemsworth

Bart Layton is the British film-maker who previously gave us American Animals, a true-crime docudrama about the theft of rare books. That film’s title would also have applied perfectly well to this new one, an LA crime thriller adapted from a novella by Don Winslow. It is a little in the style of Michael Mann, though without the military hardware and the overhead shots of SUVs moving in swift convoy that would make it a full Mann homage.

Layton does without the distinctive indirect mannerisms and meta-commentaries of his earlier movies, but he applies his pedal to the metal for what is an enjoyable and very stylish high-stakes armed robbery film about a thief who is highly controlled, super-cool, super-groomed, and naturally looking for the “walkaway money” of the time-honoured one last job.

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Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.

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Childhood terrors come to wretched life in a grim fairytale of a puzzle-platformer that’s as beautifully macabre as it is hard to put down

“I thought you were dead,” are the first words you’ll hear from the child protagonists of this horror puzzle-platformer. It’s your first sign that things were going badly long before you got here. Exploring dark waves and desolated urban environments in a rowboat, they’re on a search for their lost friends across a world of rabid, malformed entities. As the children struggle with their outsize fears, so will you, but you’ve at least got the option to play co-op if you want someone on the couch to brave the horrors with.

In the early 2000s, irreverent gaming blog Old Man Murray pioneered the “crate review system”. The rubric was simple: the sooner the player encountered their first wooden cube of heinous mediocrity, the more uninspired the game. Updating this method for 2026, we’ve got a few new contenders: how soon before you shimmy slowly through a gap, boost a companion over a high ledge so they can pull you up or tediously rotate some mechanism with the analogue stick? Reanimal pulls out all these hits within the first 20 minutes and, by the time the credits roll, six hours in, it feels as if developer Tarsier has wrung the final drops of interactive novelty from its formula of light exploration puzzles, tense but simple stealth and ghastly chases. And yet this grim fairytale is still difficult to put down.

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Overal in prehistorisch Europa gaat de komst van de landbouw gepaard met grote genetische veranderingen in de bevolking. Maar niet in een drassig gebied aan de Noordzee.

Bijna 56miljoen jaar geleden warmde de aarde razendsnel op. Het was de laatste keer dat het klimaat bijna net zo snel veranderde als nu — met ingrijpende gevolgen voor het leven…